Every Tuesday, here on 5things , I ask you to tell us about 5 of your favourite things based on a theme. This week, instead of asking you to name things you love, I want you to list food fads trends that you hate. Here is my list :
Avocado
Articles on health, food, and healthy food are full of the virtues of this fruit. It is supposed to be keto friendly and chock full of vitamins. Try as I might, I have not been able to acquire a taste for it.
Tres Leches Cake / Three Milk Cake
For the uninitiated, this is a sponge cake soaked in three kinds of milk : condensed milk, evaporated milk , and cream. Although very fashionable in my part of the world these days, I just cannot stand soggy cake. Rich fruit cake, chocolate sponge, banana bread, walnut pie : now those are what I call cake.
Almond Milk / Soy Milk
Unless you have lactose intolerance or some kind of allergy why even consider these? It is very fashionable to eat dairy free these days but unless there is a medical condition, why give up on a good source of vitamins and calcium that is also flavorful. I have tried almond milk and lived to regret it. With soy milk, I have not even made the attempt.
Green Drinks
Again, these are very fashionable these days for diet and detox. Smoothies can take any kind of green : spinach, kale, wheatgrass. I pass on all of the above, the only green I can have as juice or smoothie is kiwi fruit.
Bullet Proof Coffee
Bulletproof coffee is a high-calorie coffee drink intended to replace breakfast. It consists of 2 cups (470 ml) of coffee, 2 tablespoons (28 grams) of grass-fed, unsalted butter, and 1–2 tablespoons (15–30 ml) of MCT oil mixed in a blender. It was originally promoted by Dave Asprey, the creator of the Bulletproof Diet.
This coffee is also part of the keto diet and I got to know about it via a friend who was on this diet. I considered it very brave of her to endure it and could not be persuaded to try it.
DISCLAIMER: Today’s post is a bit of a rant and may offend some people who like these food trends. My apologies if I have given offence, but these are my personal preferences.
What are 5 food fads that you love to hate? I would love to know.
Salted Caramel 
I am not a fan of shell fish………..
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Here are my five. Although two of them can’t be counted as ‘fads’. That coffee you mentioned sounds disgusting. I could NOT swallow it, and if I did manage to drink a cup of it, I’m sure I’d be throwing up in short order. There’s so much fat in that (butter in coffee? Oh goodness me!! ) that my non-existent gall bladder would have a fit. As it does with any overly greasy substance. And that cake? I’m with you. Why ruin a good cake by sogging it up? I don’t like lava cake for that very reason either. So your choices aren’t so strange. But avocados? I’ll take your share any time! You can have my onions! Fair trade!
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I like avocado been eating it since before it was a “thing”, as for the rest of your list – Eww – none for me thanks! (Food fad that makes me erfing crazy? Pumpkin spice flavored anything – OMG – NO. Pumpkin spice belongs in pumpkin pie – end of…)
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I think the avocado that I have always come across at home and abroad must not have been very nice ones .
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Bullet-proof coffee sounds awful.
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It does, doesn’t it?
So I have never tried it. 😖
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My Gran use to be obsessed with smoothies, like the healthy ones. They were always green and tasted gross…icky, lol
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Walnut pie sounds delicious! Never heard of it. Is it like pecan pie?
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Very similar, I believe.
Delicious with ice cream — “a la mode”
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